11-12-2009, 03:50 PM
I was there as well. I like the people who run that program but concur that there is a general laxity which seems to pervade the event. I hear that some people think that RTR is "too tight-ass" but I think there is a real benefit to a higher level of discipline. While we can have our internal disagreements about protocol, you just won't see vague and ambiguous point-bys, instuctors giving signals, slow cars holding up the entire green group, etc in RTR. I'm not sure that the carnage was directly attributable to the approach (we sure have our own share in our events) but it may have.